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Berkeley: University of California, 1917. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, 225 pp. Some bumpting to boards and fading to title on cloth, very good plus overall. Very Good. A unique association copy of Richard Tolman's work on relativity, published early in his career before his involvement in the technocracy movement and his later more influential Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology. This copy is inscribed to the mathematician William Duncan MacMillan on the front free endpaper, likely after its publication as MacMillan assumed professorship in 1919 after his military career ended. Very uncommon inscribed, this being a nice association copy.
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The Theory of Relativity in Motion [Inscribed to William Duncan Macmillan]
by Tolman, Richard [William Duncan MacMillan]
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Three Cabinet Card Photographs of St. Louis Residents taken by Julius Gross and Gustav Cramer
by [German-American Photographers - St. Louis] Cramer, Gustav; Kroll, Julius
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St. Louis: Gustav Cramer and Julius Gross, 1880. Cabinet card photographs measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mounts. Fine condition. Fine. The German-American duo of Gustav Cramer and Julius Gross spent several decades photographing the wealthy families on St. Louis's south side in the late nineteenth century, with Gross succeeding Cramer at their 1001 S. Broadway location. Offered here are three particularly fine examples of their work, including a striking portrait of a young woman named Emma Gerhardt, an older woman in religious habit, and a young woman with braided hair.
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Three Early Posters Relating to the American Youth Hostel Movement, c. 1939
by [Hosteling Movement - Massachusetts] [Bicycle Culture in America] [Poster Design - Women] Smith, Isabel Bacheler
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Holyoke and Northfield: Litho Inc. / American Youth Hostels, 1939. First Edition. Includes: Bicycle for Adventure on the Youth Hostel Trail. Holyoke, Massachusetts, c. 1939: Valley Litho Inc. Lithographed poster, 19 x 25 inches; Take to the A.Y.H. Trail. Northfield, 1939: American Youth Hostels . Lithographed poster, 17 x 22 inches; Hostellers Know...Northfield, 1939: American Youth Hostels Inc. Lithographed poster, 17 x 22 inches. All are signed "Isabel" in images. Excellent condition overall, with some toning small chips and various wear to margins, but overall quite well preserved. Near Fine. Isabel and Monroe Smith, a married couple from Northfield, Massachusetts, started the American Youth Hostel movement in 1933 after gaining inspiration from Richard Schirrman's German Hosteling Organization. The movement grew quickly, with thirty hostels operating throughout New England within the first year. The first hostel was the Northfield Chateau, a large mansion on Birnham Road that was eventually…
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Three Letters to Thomas Dewing, 1902-1910
by [Art] MacMonnies, Frederick
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V.p., 1910. Ink on paper, each sheet approx. 9 x 7 in., 1-4 sheets each, variously paginated, one with orig. envelope. Celebrated American Beaux-Arts sculptor Frederick MacMonnies (1863-1937) studied with Augustus Saint-Gaudens and many of his best commissions emerged from his relationships with Saint-Gaudens and the architect Stanford White. He lived primarily in France but traveled frequently to New York and was part of a circle of artists that formed around White at Edwin Booth's Players Club in Gramercy Park and the Saint-Gaudens summer colony in New Hampshire. Artist Thomas Dewing was another Saint-Gaudens student and MacMonnies' close friend. Two of the three letters discuss an important commission for the Players Club: a memorial sculpture for famed actor Edwin Booth. The memorial became a flash point for changing American tastes and a harbinger of MacMonnies' declining fortunes. His original proposal was an elaborate and symbolic design at odds with the new fashion for modern and simplified…
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Three Original Promotional Photographs for Peterson and Vierra's Concert and Dramatic Company, a 'Hawaiian' Touring Band, and Another Photograph of Lei Aloha, Another Performer from the Same Era, Chicago, c. 1915
by [Hawaiian Music in the United States] [Peterson and Vierra's Concert and Dramatic Company] Orpheum Studio; C. F. Pairing and Co
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Chicago, 1915. Gelatin silver photographs, three measure 8 x 10 inches, one measures 6 x 8 inches. Two bearing stamps of the Orpheum Studio, Chicago, one with stamp from C.J. Pairing and Company. All with editorial marks to verso. Some marks, pin holes and wear, about very good condition overall, with sepia toned photographs attractively preserved. Very Good. A scarce survival of the early days of Hawaiian music in the United states, these four studio photographs were produced in Chicago for the Peterson and Vierra Dramatic Concert Company, who toured the United States briefly in 1914-1915 at the advent of the Hawaiian music craze. Scant information on the group is available save for early newspaper accounts. The group was led by a J. Kilali Peterson, who according to contemporary accounts was originally with the Bird of Paradise production, which was highly influential in bringing Hawaiian music to America in 1912. According to a contemporary account of the show, Peterson was billed as "The premier…
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Three Photographs of Reverend Red Fox James, One Inscribed
by Reverend Red Fox James
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New York, et al., 1915. Silver gelatin prints, roughly 8 x 8, 8 x 10 and 5 x 7 inches, the last on a larger mount. Very Good. In 1914, Francis Red Fox James, now presumed to be related to the Blackfoot tribe, rode a horse across the country seeking states' approval for an American Indian national holiday. He delivered endorsements from 24 states to the federal government, but a commemoration never materialized. The Washington Herald reported that James rode 4,000 miles from a Crow reservation in Montana and was received by President Wilson to discuss the possibility of a "national Indian's Day" in October. (Washington Herald, 12/16/14) Although his mother was probably Blackfoot, James claimed Native American heritage only as an adult. He changed his name by adding "Red" and later "Skiuhushu" to Francis Fox James. Two of the images in this collection contain familiar tropes of American Indian portraiture but the third offers an arresting image of James holding the American flag aloft as a kind of…
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Three Promotional Photographs and Signed Menu from The Cotton Club
by Calloway, Cab
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New York, 1950. Three photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches, menu measuring 10 x 3 3/4. Cab Calloway and his band began performing at the Cotton Club in 1931, enjoying an initial three year stint with many sporadic returns in the subsequent decades. Calloway's manager, Irving Mills, played a large part in marketing Calloway's music to a white audience. Nate Sloan, in "Constructing Cab Calloway, Publicity, Race, and Performance in 1930s Harlem Jazz," writes: "Cab Calloway was of the most popular jazz musicians of the 1930s and 1940s whose legacy today is complicated by his repertoire of novelty songs with references to minstrelsy, his residency at a segregated Harlem cabaret, the Cotton Club, and his marketing to white audiences by manager Irving Mills. Calloway's sound and persona-commercial, racialized, theatrical-did not square with an emergent art discourse around jazz during the 1930s. Hit songs like "Minnie the Moocher" (1931), with its dark, minor sound world, exaggerated depictions of seedy…
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Three Views of Euro-American Settlement in Durango and Silverton, Colorado, with a Photograph of a Mining Camp, c. 1883-1884
by [American West - Colorado] Photographer Unknown
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Colorado, 1884. Albumen photographs measuring 7 ½ x 4 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some chips to mounts, occasional foxing and spotting, good to very good overall with very good contrast. Good. Three early photographs of Colorado taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1880s, taken shortly after the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad made Durango and Silverton more accessible to Euro-American settlement. D&RG had chosen Durango as the site for a settlement to reach Silverton and the San Juan Mountains. One image shows a group of miners, with one identified on the back as John Ward. The region would boom in population in the years following the railroad, largely from emigrant workers who came to the area to work as miners. We find no other record of these images.
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Three Watercolors for Proposed Intersections in Queens from the Robert Moses Era
by [New York City] [Automobile Age]
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New York, 1940. Watercolors on paper affixed to later illustration board, 14 x 26 inches each. Very Good. An attractive set of images from the Robert Moses era in an unknown hand. The images show proposed intersections including two that were never built. The images include "Proposed Parkway Passing over Entrance to Fort Totten," which shows an overpass on the Cross-Island Parkway in Northeast Queens, dated October 1937; "Linden Boulevard Overpass at Southern Parkway," showing an unbuilt intersection at North Conduit Avenue and Dumont Avenue, perhaps in the Ozone Park neighborhood, undated; "Woodbine Street Passing over Long Island RR to Metropolitan Ave & 67th St.," which shows a non-existent intersection near the Middle Village stop on the M line, dated August 1940. Interesting relics from the Robert Moses era, which shaped the infrastructure landscape of New York City. A very good group overall, though the Woodbine Street illustrations shows marginal dampstaining and all three show…
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Tintype Photograph of an African-American Man in a Coat with Hands on Both Hips, c. 1860s-1870s
by [African-Americana - Early Photography]
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American, 1870. Ninth plate tintype measuring 3 x 1 ¾ inches in early tintype period paper mount. Excellent contrast. Very Good. A striking image of an African-American man, formally dressed in a bowtie and jacket with his hands on both hips. The mount is from the early tintype period, circa 1860s-1870s. Excellent exposure with fine contrast.
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Tintype of Two Men Seated, circa 1875-1880
by [Photography - 19th Century][Vernacular]
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American, 1860. 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches, uncased. A striking image, featured on p. 79 of David Deitcher's Dear Friends: Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918. Images of men together from the nineteenth century do not necessarily suggest a sexual relationship, as Deitcher explains in his book, but rather a show of intimacy within the very separated realms of the sexes. From the Jim Graham collection.
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To Maecenas [First Appearance, in The Scots Magazine, September 1773 - Entire Issue Offered]
by [African-Americana - Poetry] Wheatley, Phyllis
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Edinburgh: Scots Magazine, 1773. First Edition. 8vo, [450] - 504 pp, disbound from larger collected volume, complete. Contents fine, binding split, very good. The first appearance of Phyllis Wheatley's "On Maecenas," published in September, 1773, the same month that her Poems on Various Subjects was headed to the printer, and likely predating the form in its collected version. The introduction to the poem reads "The first, but not superior to some others of the negro girl Phillis Wheatley's poems." Poems on Various Subjects was printed in 1773, with some copies being sent to Boston on the Dartmouth, which was one of the targets of the Boston Tea Party - though the books were spared as the protesters were only interested in the tea onboard." In To Maecenas (1773) this black poet, whose writing and publishing activity was wholly unprecedented, tried on a series of identities she had encounteredin her reading of classical authors, in a transparent quest to identify and formulate a poetic persona…
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Tobacco Death Bulletin
by [Anti-Tobacco Advertising] Victory Remedy Co
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Dayton, 1910. Broadside on newsprint measuring 19 x 7 ½ inches. Fine condition. Fine. An unrecorded broadside advertising two products - called Victory Bullets and Victory Powders - to help stop smoking. The company, a Victory Remedy Co., of which we find several records circa 1910, guarantees the products' success. The broadside, printed in the style of a newspaper, shows a series of fictitious horrors committed by smokers, with macabre illustrations. Some of the episodes involve death from tobacco use directly, the others warm of boy murderers, shooters, insanity from smoking, and a farmer who is stricken with 'tobacco heart.' As the scientific research on smoking was clearly not very advanced at this point, the broadside is an uncommon example of anti-smoking advertising, which would of course become much more common later in the twentieth century.
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Tratado de Amistad, Limites y Navegacion Concluido entre el Rey Nuestro Senor y los Estados Unidos de America: Firmado en San Lorenzo el Real a 27 de Octubre de 1795
by [Pinckney's Treaty][Treaty of San Lorenzo]
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Madrid: Imprenta Real, 1796. First Edition. Good. The first bilingual edition of Pinckney's Treaty of San Lorenzo, which ended the West Florida Conflict by establishing an amicable agreement between Spain and the United States for the navigation of the Mississippi River. Thomas Pinckney signed as a representative of the United States, and Manuel de Godoy signed in the name of Carlos IV of Spain. The agreement's effects were far reaching, as the ceded land that became the Mississippi Territory - particularly the Natchez region - formed a gateway for the United States expansion into the Southwest by destabilizing Spanish power. A landmark treaty, uncommon in its first bilingual edition. Rear wrap and final leaf detached, and lacking the passports. Worming and chips to wraps, contents well preserved, good condition overall. Palau 339329; Sabin 96587.
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Truth Stranger than Fiction: Father Henson's Story of his Own Life
by [African - Americana] Henson, Rev. Josiah; Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1858. First Expanded, Second Overall. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth, xii, 212 pp. Some foxing and light wear, very good. Very Good. This is the first expanded and the second overall edition and first edition thus of Benson's autobiography, expanded by Henson from the 1849 edition after Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin led to an increased interest in Henson's life. Henson would expand his work further and publish another edition in 1876 as interest in his life continued. A nice copy in the original publisher's binding, also included is a custom open-top clamshell case made of boards and marbled paper, overall very attractive and well preserved.
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Twelve Compositions by Maceo Jefferson [with] Photograph of the Plantation Orchestra, Featuring Jefferson [with] A Signed Note by Jefferson, c. 1964
by Jefferson, Maceo
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V.p., 1960. Photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, compositions measuring 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Well preserved, nearly fine with some normal toning. Near Fine. Maceo Jefferson was a jazz banjoist and guitarist from South Carolina who began his career in the 1920s playing with Roscoe Lee, Lucille Hegamin and Ethel Waters and then playing in the Plantation Orchestra, which played in Lew Leslie's Blackbirds Review, touring in Europe and recording in England. Jefferson married a French woman while on tour in the 1930s, and spent stints in Europe and America playing alongside Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, Willie "The Lion" Smith and others before being imprisoned in France by the Vichy government. Following his repatriation to the United States, Jefferson lived in New York and later Connecticut, focusing mainly on composition. Offered here are twelve compositions from Jefferson's American period in the 1940s-1960s. Titles include: You've Got Me Now; It Won't Be Long Now; Wake Up and Live; When you Put…
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Twenty Photographs and Various Inscribed Mementos, 1927-1947
by Clara Adams [Earhart, Amelia][Aviation][Women in Aviation]
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1945. Various sizes and dates. Clara Adams was a wealthy widow who took up air travel in its early days, setting records for transatlantic flights and circumnavigation as a commercial airline passenger. In doing so, she helped popularize flying as a safe and comfortable way to travel. She was friends with many famous women of aviation, including pilots Amelia Earhart, Alys McKey Bryant, and Thea Rasche. This collection includes three photographs with Earhart and one with Rasche, some with holograph inscriptions. Also present are items related to the captain of the Graf Zeppelin, Hugo Eckener; a rare Ohio hobbyist magazine; and a curious leaflet advertising light art Clavilux recitals. An unusual collection, collected by Adams and showing her range of interests. Contents arranged chronologically: Sproul, William Cameron. ALS. Postmark: Dec 8, 1927. Single leaf, [2] pp.; together with envelope. Sproul was a governor of Pennsylvania, he writes to Adams that he is staying at a hunting lodge in…
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Twenty-Two Press Photographs of a Women's Fitness Program in Cleveland during World War Two
by [World War Two][The Homefront]
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Cleveland, 1942. Silver prints, most 6 ½ by 9, with various editorial marks and identifiers to versos. A collection of women's fitness press photographs taken around Cleveland in 1942, from the archives of the Cleveland News. Excellent. A collection of twenty-two photographs documenting women's fitness programs in Cleveland in 1942. The programs, and corresponding articles in the Cleveland News, appear to be the work of Eleanor Dearnley, physical education teacher at Flora Stone Mather College. Other photographs show women's fitness activities at the Lakewood Community Center, also in Cleveland. There are several examples of similar local efforts in support of the national "Keep Fit for Victory" Campaign. The photographs show women in a range of activities - basketball, stretching, calisthenics, volleyball, etc. Some of the photographs are graphically hand-painted by the editorial staff. Most pictures have corresponding articles pasted onto versos. The images are generally quite playful in…
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Two Albums with Architectural Photographs of over 406 New England Churches, Meticulously Arranged and Annotated, circa 1965-1970s
by [Architecture][New England]
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New England, 1970. Two plastic albums, 10 ½ x 11 inches. A lovingly arranged and annotated product of someone's obsession with New England's churches. Nearly all photos 3 ½ square. A few of the churches have multiple photos. Most photos are shot from a similar three quarters frontal view, though some are frontal. The repeated perspective shows a respect for the vernacular forms, though it is unclear if the photographer's interests were architectural or historical in nature. The photographer travelled throughout New England, with the breakdown of churches as follows: 206 in Massachusetts, forty-six in Connecticut, forty-eight in Maine, eighty-six in New Hampshire, sixteen in Rhode Island and six in other states. A fine collection, impeccably preserved in the original albums, which read "Memories" on the front.
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Two Albumen Photographs of Lumbering in Eureka, Calif., c. 1890
by [California] Fassold, Peter
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1890. 9 ½ x 7 inch photographs on 11 x 13 mounts. Very Good. The first photograph captures a bearded man atop a stump, peering in the forest, with sunlight pouring through a stand of redwoods. The second shows redwood rounds loaded on a train car, with "Exelsior Redwood Co. Eureka Cal." etched into the negative. All of the train workers are posed for the photograph, along with several men and a young girl in the background. A well-preserved pair of images in very good condition with good contrast and some wear and toning to mounts.
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